Tony Harrison's V forthcoming on BBC R4
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1chrisharpe
BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast a new version of Leeds poet Tony Harrison's V in February. Looking forward to it....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/14/radio-4-controversy-tony-harrison-v
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/14/radio-4-controversy-tony-harrison-v
2chrisharpe
The previous UK Channel 4 broadcast from the 1980s here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8
3thorold
If even the Grauniad is more interested in the rude words than in the poem's political message, heaven help Radio 4 once the tabloids get going...
4chrisharpe
BBC R4 has promised that the broadcast will be aired late enough that good citizens will be asleep and "preceded by multiple warnings about the language".
5Jargoneer
>4 chrisharpe: - do we trust them? I've asked them time and again to precede their panel shows with warnings about smugness but they still fail to do so.
6chrisharpe
Monday 18 February, 23h00 GMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017ldlh
As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture, Tony Harrison, now aged 75, has recorded a new reading of his controversial poem v. - broadcast in this programme alongside a discussion around the poem's significance. This is the first broadcast of v. on British radio.
At the poet's request, the poem is broadcast in its entirety, and as a pure, single-voice recording. It was recorded in his hometown of Leeds.
Harrison wrote the poem in 1985, after being angered by graffiti sprayed on his parent's grave by football fans.
The writer Blake Morrison introduces us to v. and talks to others who were caught up in the storm of controversy around it. Melvyn Bragg, Simon Armitage and Julie Bindell, as well as Gerald Howarth MP, consider its impact.
A filmed version of the poem, directed by Richard Eyre, caused controversy two years later when it was announced that it was to be broadcast on Channel 4. The poem, which includes repeated strong language was denounced by tabloid newspapers as a "torrent of filth". A group of Conservative MPs signed an early day motion to have the programme pulled from the schedules. At that time, Gerald Howarth said that Harrison was "Probably another bolshie poet wishing to impose his frustrations on the rest of us". Harrison retorted that Howarth was "Probably another idiot MP wishing to impose his intellectual limitations on the rest of us".
Others defended the poet's right to use such language to draw attention to the wanton desecration of his family's grave. It was also seen against the backdrop of the Miners' strike and racial intolerance in British cities. Today, Beeston, the poem's setting, is renowned as the home of Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the 7/7 bombers.
Contains frequent, very strong language.
Poetry Production: Graham Frost
Feature Production: Lucy Dichmont
Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017ldlh
As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture, Tony Harrison, now aged 75, has recorded a new reading of his controversial poem v. - broadcast in this programme alongside a discussion around the poem's significance. This is the first broadcast of v. on British radio.
At the poet's request, the poem is broadcast in its entirety, and as a pure, single-voice recording. It was recorded in his hometown of Leeds.
Harrison wrote the poem in 1985, after being angered by graffiti sprayed on his parent's grave by football fans.
The writer Blake Morrison introduces us to v. and talks to others who were caught up in the storm of controversy around it. Melvyn Bragg, Simon Armitage and Julie Bindell, as well as Gerald Howarth MP, consider its impact.
A filmed version of the poem, directed by Richard Eyre, caused controversy two years later when it was announced that it was to be broadcast on Channel 4. The poem, which includes repeated strong language was denounced by tabloid newspapers as a "torrent of filth". A group of Conservative MPs signed an early day motion to have the programme pulled from the schedules. At that time, Gerald Howarth said that Harrison was "Probably another bolshie poet wishing to impose his frustrations on the rest of us". Harrison retorted that Howarth was "Probably another idiot MP wishing to impose his intellectual limitations on the rest of us".
Others defended the poet's right to use such language to draw attention to the wanton desecration of his family's grave. It was also seen against the backdrop of the Miners' strike and racial intolerance in British cities. Today, Beeston, the poem's setting, is renowned as the home of Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the 7/7 bombers.
Contains frequent, very strong language.
Poetry Production: Graham Frost
Feature Production: Lucy Dichmont
Producer: David Prest
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
7alaudacorax
I was a little startled to see Tony Harrison looking so old in that link. Time passes.
I don't remember the furore first time round. I'm not sure if I completely missed it or have simply forgotten it.
I think that if I was aware of it I'd probably have vehemently supported Harrison and the BBC ('probably', because I was in my thirties then - I certainly would have in my teens or twenties). Now, I can definitely see all sides of the argument and, so, don't really feel I can have a strong opinion. I suppose that means that I'm growing old, too ...
I don't remember the furore first time round. I'm not sure if I completely missed it or have simply forgotten it.
I think that if I was aware of it I'd probably have vehemently supported Harrison and the BBC ('probably', because I was in my thirties then - I certainly would have in my teens or twenties). Now, I can definitely see all sides of the argument and, so, don't really feel I can have a strong opinion. I suppose that means that I'm growing old, too ...
